The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

It is very singular how the fact of a man's death often seems to give people a truer idea of his character, whether for good or evil, than they have ever possessed while he was living and acting among them.

There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven.

Not yet hardened, many young die good.

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.